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By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace This collection of short stories follows a woman at different points in her life, from the loneliness of childhood, the ardour and confusion of young adulthood, and the mortality we must all eventually face up to. Moral Disorder is Margaret...

Atwood triumphs with these dazzling, personal stories in her first collection since Wilderness Tips. In these ten interrelated stories Atwood traces the course of a life and also the lives intertwined with it, while evoking the drama and the humour that colour common experiences — the birth of...

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to The Book of Morals to experience 35 short stories with a moral lesson behind them.

“We don’t like bad news, but we need it. We need to know about it in case it’s coming our way.” This delicious, contemptuous and poignant micro-story is the first in the acclaimed collection, Moral Disorder, from towering author and #1 New York Times Bestseller, Margaret Atwood. The bad...

Step into the whimsical, charming, and timeless world of Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott, a delightful collection of short stories where nature comes alive with humor, wonder, and gentle wisdom.

These 10 short stories feature some of the homicide cases investigated by the South Side Precinct’s best homicide detectives Turner Hahn and Frank Morales. In this riveting collection, you'll find cases of murder, revenge, greed, and insanity, with a hint of the supernatural thrown in as a bonus.

Simplemente he ido escribiendo historias a lo largo de mi vida y esta es una recopilación de veinticinco de ellas. Comienzan en la finca La Esperanza y Sumidero, en las afueras del central Mercedes (hoy 6 de Agosto), Matanzas, Cuba, donde transcurrieron mis primeros 14 años de vida, y terminan con relatos, ya adulto, viviendo de profesor universitario, a un aspirante a trovador y algún que otro avispado gitano carterista.

The Hawaiian word for ghost is Uhane. In this collection of short stories described as Harry Bosch meets Mary Poppins by one reviewer, there are tons of them. It’s hard to tell sometimes who’s living, and who’s dead, even for Danny. He’s a magnet for everything weird. His twisty cases confound the police, but not him. He’s the one who puts out fires. Unsolved murder is a fire that can never be extinguished, and Danny is determined to put out every single one. In these four stories, the lines between life and death and everything in between are blurred.

Questo è il sentimento che riempie di sé tutta l'opera leopardiana: la desolata nostalgia d'una felicità sconosciuta ed assurda, la disperata aspirazione verso un mondo migliore. Nelle più riuscite fra le "Operette", come nei "Canti", la poesia non nasce dalla brutta realtà ma dal vano bisogno di superarla... Così nelle "Operette" come nei "Canti" questa realtà grigia si disegna sul fondo luminoso di un ideale: e l'impressione dominante è quella di una delusione non rassegnata.